Live infectious funk jams....quality recordings

This is 2% Jazz and 98% funky...

NILS LANDGREN funk unit - Licence to Funk - not live but an excellent recording and guarenteed to have you foot tapping. Great drumming by Wolfgang Haffner... Ray Parker on vocals I am pleased I got this one - solid throughout.

Try Steve Ferrone "More Head" and Tower of Power "Soul Vaccination" => two great sounding live albums and very funky. Ferrone really has the Groove and David Garibaldi needs no introduction.

Also try Black Eyed Peas "Vegas to Sydney" DVD - (perhaps there is a live CD I don't know) - the Sydney sessions are exceedingly well recorded and produced by Tal Herzberg...+ their touring drummer is Keith Harris....and he also has the GROOVE ....big time!

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band do a great cover of The Meters "Cissy Strut"...they are well worth checking out too for infectious funk - you won't be able to keep still I absolutely guarentee it!!

Henryhk,

Thanks for the suggestion - I've ordered it.

Maceo Parker - Live On PLanet Groove is awesome thanks Tdostert - amazing suggestion - really feels lke you are there

Nils Landgren Funk Unit "Live in Stokholm" and "Live in Montreux"

Yeah I have Roots and Grooves - Awesome stuff.

I am going to sound like a broken record....but the film "My first name is Maceo" is sonically a masterpiece (DVD with 5.1 and Stereo) and extremely infectious live funk: Pee Wee Willis, Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley are supremely impressive in this film about Maceo, which mostly includes coverage of a concert in a club in Hamburg in 1994 coupled with brief interviews with band members. (It appears to be FILMED - which means you get great quality color and no grain as you normally do with most concert footage that is shot by video cameras.) I simply can't recommend this enough!

Does the Maceo crowd here own Roots and Grooves? The extended version of "Pass The Peas" is about as funky as it gets. In my book, anyway.

I have been enjoying this disc again recently. I dug out the jewel case and found the reason why it is so Funky - DENNIS CHAMBERS - man can that guy play "in the pocket" - he is among the best drummers alive today, IMHO. He also happens to be the choice of drummer to fill in for David Garabaldi on Tower of Power. (David being another astonishing drummer) The drum solo Dennis uses is the one he also used recently when he toured with Santana.

The German WDR Cologne Big band is darn tight too. My hats off to such an impressive display musicianship.

Audio is 11 out of 10 - there is a proper preservation of dynamics on this CD - it sounds like realistic live music.

OTOH, I'm not sure I'd make it through an hour of partying with George Clinton - and that's a problem, because a P-Funk party never stops.

I quite agree - he was the only disappointment (to me) on the entire DVD - thank goodness he only stayed for a couple of tracks. Jamal Thomas on drums was awesome but I think I prefer Dennis Chambers on "Pass the Peas"...good call on your part on that one!

I just ordered David Garfield's 2003 album "Giving Back" after listening to this fantastic groove a whole bunch of times.

I defy anyone to listen to this track and keep still!!!!!

This ain't live but I picked it up on CD recently...seems to be have taken off of the vinyl but this is dynamite infectious stuff!

Cold Blood

Chazro thanks for the great suggestions!

Bongo,

I will investigate. what do you recommend for someone who likes Cold Blood, ToP, Maceo Parker, Rhinocerous, J.B.s and James Brown, Phat Funcktion, Soulive etc. I have found the Brown Sugar label to be pretty good.

I am enjoying remastered Motherlode right now - this has the funkier side of James Brown - less well known stuff - but it is da bomb! Definitely infectious stuff.

Thanks Bob!

The Daptone Gold LP, 24 best tracks by their roster, is amazing as an introduction.

Absolutely. I saw Naomi Shelton & ~The Gospel Queens recently - awesome stuff.

Daptone Records has some fantastic artists.